Survey of London (1598): Honour of Citizens A suruay of London. Contayning the originall, antiquity, increase, moderne estate, and description of that citie, written in the yeare 1598. by Iohn Stow citizen of London. Also an apologie (or defence) against the opinion of some men, concerning that citie, the greatnesse thereof. With an appendix, containing in Latine, Libellum de situ & nobilitate Londini: written by William Fitzstephen, in the raigne of Henry the second. Author John Stow Author William fitz Stephen Printer John Windet Publisher John Wolfe Editor Janelle Jenstad Transcriber EEBO-TCP encoders (names not known) Transcriber Nathan Phillips First Encoders EEBO-TCP encoders (names not known) Editor of Original EEBO-TCP Encoding Paul Schaffner Creator of TEI Stylesheets for Conversion of EEBO-TCP Encoding to TEI-P5 Sebastian Rahtz Post-Conversion Editor Martin Holmes Managing Editor Kim McLean-Fiander Managing Editor Katie Tanigawa Encoder Nathan Phillips Encoder Sarah Milligan Encoder Catriona Duncan Encoder Joey Takeda Encoder Kate LeBere Toponymist Catriona Duncan Transcription Proofreader Kate LeBere Transcription Proofreader Lucas Simpson Markup Editor Chris Horne CSS Editor Kate LeBere Data Manager Tye Landels Junior Programmer Joey Takeda Programmer Martin Holmes Associate Project Director Kim McLean-Fiander Project Director Janelle Jenstad The Map of Early Modern Londonhttp://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/includes.xmlVictoria, BC, Canada
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 978-1-55058-520-9 23341 A13049 99853096 18464 Provider: University of Victoria Database: The Map of Early Modern London Content: text/plain; charset="utf-8" TY - ELEC A1 - Stow, John A1 - fitz-Stephen, William ED - Jenstad, Janelle T1 - Survey of London (1598): Honour of Citizens T2 - The Map of Early Modern London ET - 7.0 PY - 2022 DA - 2022/05/05 CY - Victoria PB - University of Victoria LA - English UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/stow_1598_honour.htm UR - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/xml/standalone/stow_1598_honour.xml ER - Stow, John, and William fitz-Stephen. Survey of London (1598): Honour of Citizens. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0, edited by Janelle Jenstad, U of Victoria, 05 May 2022, mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/stow_1598_honour.htm. Stow, John, and William fitz-Stephen. Survey of London (1598): Honour of Citizens. The Map of Early Modern London, Edition 7.0. Ed. Janelle Jenstad. Victoria: University of Victoria. Accessed May 05, 2022. mapoflondon.uvic.ca/edition/7.0/stow_1598_honour.htm. Stow, J., & fitz-Stephen, W. 2022. Survey of London (1598): Honour of Citizens. In J. Jenstad (Ed), The Map of Early Modern London (Edition 7.0). Victoria: University of Victoria. Retrieved from https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/editions/7.0/stow_1598_honour.htm. This semi-diplomatic transcription takes the University of Victoria copy (DA680 S87 1598) of STC 23341 (ESTC S117887) as its control text. For convenience, we began with the TEI-XML P4 file of the EEBO-TCP transcription of STC 23341(TCP A13049), available on GitHub). The names of the EEBO-TCP transcribers are unknown. Paul Schaffner edited the original EEBO-TCP markup in or before 2012. Sebastian Rahtz created the TEI Stylesheets to convert the EEBO-TCP file to TEI-P5 in or before 2012. Martin Holmes downloaded the XML file from the GitHub repository. Martin Holmes processed the file programmatically to bring it in line with MoEML’s TEI customization. Holmes added proleptic catchwords (based on the first word on the next page) and converted short s back to long s based on predictable patterns. MoEML Research Assistants at the University of Victoria performed the following additional tasks: supplied content for the gaps left by the EEBO-TCP transcribers; checked the transcription against digital surrogates of the UVic copy and against the copy itself; corrected the proleptic catchwords where necessary; transcribed the formeworks; added links to digital surrogates; and tagged all people, places, and dates. The text was then checked by Editor Janelle Jenstad. London

The city of London, not to be confused with the allegorical character (London).

(LOND5.xml) The Thames Information is not yet available. (THAM2.xml) St. Mary Spital

St. Mary Spital was an Augustinian Priory and Hospital on the east side of Bishopsgate Street. The Priory dates from 1197. The old precinct of St. Mary Spital is visible on the Agas map. The church itself was demolished after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539. By the time the Agas map was drawn, many of the priory buildings had been removed and the area appears sparse.

(STMA12.xml) Bishopsgate Information is not yet available. (BISH2.xml) Bethlehem Hospital

Although its name evokes the pandemonium of the archetypal madhouse, Bethlehem (Bethlem, Bedlam) Hospital was not always an asylum. As Stow tells us, Saint Mary of Bethlehem began as a Priorie of Cannons with brethren and sisters, founded in 1247 by Simon Fitzmary, one of the Sheriffes of London (Stow 1:164). We know from Stow’s Survey that the hospital, part of Bishopsgate ward (without), resided on the west side of Bishopsgate Street, just north of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate (Stow 1:165).

(BETH1.xml) Conduit (Cornhill)

Not labelled on the Agas map, the Conduit upon Cornhill is thought to have been located in the middle of Cornhill Ward and opposite the north end of Change Alley and the eastern side of the Royal Exchange (Harben 167; BHO). Formerly a prison, it was built to bring fresh water from Tyburn to Cornhill.

(COND3.xml) Stocks Market

The Stocks Market was a significant market for fish and flesh in early modern London, located south of Poultry, north of Bucklersbury, and west of Walbrook Street in Cornhill Ward (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 879). The building of the Stocks Market was commissioned by Henry le Wales in 1283 and, according to the editors of The London Encyclopedia, is named after the the only fixed pair of stocks in the city (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 879). It was destroyed in the Great Fire, rebuilt, and then replaced in 1739 by the Mansion House, which is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London.

(STOC1.xml) Hospital of St. Mary within Cripplegate

Harben notes that the first known mention of the hospital, which is in the calendar of the patent rolls, stated that a license [was] granted to William de Elsyng to alienate in mortmain certain houses in the parishes of St. Alphege and St. Mary (Aldermanbury) to found a hospital for 100 blind people in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Harben 217). The aforementioned William de Elsyng was the hospital’s warden from 1330–1331, and the hospital derived its other commonly used name, Elsing Spital, from him (Harben 217).

(STMA58.xml) Cripplegate

Cripplegate was one of the original gates in the city wall (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 221; Harben). It was the northern gate of a large fortress that occupied the northwestern corner of the Roman city.

(CRIP1.xml) River Medway

(MEDW1.xml) Guildhall Information is not yet available. (GUIL1.xml) Newgate

The gaol at Newgate, a western gate in the Roman Wall of London, was constructed in the twelfth century specifically to detain fellons and trespassors awaiting trial by royal judges (Durston 470; O’Donnell 25; Stow 1598, sig. C8r). The gradual centralisation of the English criminal justice system meant that by the reign of Elizabeth I, Newgate had become London’s most populated gaol. In the early modern period, incarceration was rarely conceived of as a punishment in itself; rather, gaols like Newgate were more like holding cells, where inmates spent time until their trials or punishments were effected, or their debts were paid off.

(NEWG1.xml) Tyburn

Tyburn is best known as the location of the principal gallows where public executions were carried out from the late twelfth century until the eighteenth (Drouillard, Wikipedia). It was a village to the west of the city, near the present-day location of Marble Arch (beyond the boundary of the Agas Map). Its name derives from a stream, and its significance to Stow was primarily as one of the sources of piped water for the city; he describes how In the yeare 1401. this priſon houſe called the Tunne was made a Ceſterne for ſweete water conueyed by pipes of Leade frõ the towne of Tyborne, and was from thence forth called the conduite vpon Cornhill Stow 1598, sig. L3r.

(TYBU1.xml) The Standard (Cheapside) Information is not yet available. (STAN17.xml) Fleet Street Conduit Information is not yet available. (FLEE8.xml) Aldermanbury

Aldermanbury ran north-south, between Lad Lane in the south and Love Lane in the north and parallel between Wood Street in the west and Basinghall Street in the east. It lay wholly in Cripplegate Ward. This street is not to be confused with Alderman Bury, the former meeting place of the Court of Alderman.

(ALDE1.xml) Leadenhall Information is not yet available. (LEAD1.xml) Royal Exchange

Located in Broad Street Ward and Cornhill Ward, the Royal Exchange was opened in 1570 to make business more convenient for merchants and tradesmen (Harben 512). The construction of the Royal Exchange was largely funded by Sir Thomas Gresham (Weinreb, Hibbert, Keay, and Keay 718).

(ROYA1.xml) Bishopsgate Street

Bishopsgate Street ran north from Cornhill Street to the southern end of Shoreditch Street at the city boundary. South of Cornhill, the road became Gracechurch Street, and the two streets formed a major north-south artery in the eastern end of the walled city of London, from London Bridge to Shoreditch. Important sites included: Bethlehem Hospital, a mental hospital, and Bull Inn, a place where plays were performed before Shakespeare’s time (Weinreb and Hibbert 67).

(BISH3.xml) Christ’s Hospital

Located in Farringdon Within Ward, Christ’s Hospital was a opened in 1552 as a home for London’s needy children. Inspired by the preaching of Dr. Nicholas Ridley, Edward VI decided to charter the hospital days before his death in 1553 (Manzione 33). Although it began as a hospital, Christ’s Hospital eventually became known for its respected school (Pearce 206).

(CHRI2.xml) Holborn Conduit Information is not yet available. (HOLB4.xml) The reign of Stephen I The reign of Henry VI

Honour of Citizens chapter of Survey of London (1598).

The Julian calendar, in use in the British Empire until September 1752. This calendar is used for dates where the date of the beginning of the year is ambigious.

The Julian calendar with the calendar year regularized to beginning on 1 January.

The Julian calendar with the calendar year beginning on 25 March. This was the calendar used in the British Empire until September 1752.

The Gregorian calendar, used in the British Empire from September 1752. Sometimes referred to as New Style (NS). Years run from January 1 through December 31.

The Anno Mundi (year of the world) calendar is based on the supposed date of the creation of the world, which is calculated from Biblical sources. At least two different creation dates are in common use. See Anno Mundi (Wikipedia).

Regnal dates are given as the number of years into the reign of a particular monarch. Our practice is to tag such dates with calendar=regnal, and provide an equivalent date using a more systematic calendar (usually Julian) in a custom dating attribute.

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Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Chris Horne was an honours student in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. His primary research interests included American modernism, affect studies, cultural studies, and digital humanities.

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Project Manager, 2020-2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019-2020. Research Assistant, 2018-2020. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. She published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet during the Russian Cultural Revolution. During her time at MoEML, Kate made significant contributions to the 1598 and 1633 editions of Stow’s Survey of London, old-spelling anthology of mayoral shows, and old-spelling library texts. She authored the MoEML’s first Project Management Manual and quickstart guidelines for new employees and helped standardize the Personography and Bibliography. She is currently a student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.

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Director of Pedagogy and Outreach, 2015–2020. Associate Project Director, 2015. Assistant Project Director, 2013-2014. MoEML Research Fellow, 2013. Kim McLean-Fiander comes to The Map of Early Modern London from the Cultures of Knowledge digital humanities project at the University of Oxford, where she was the editor of Early Modern Letters Online, an open-access union catalogue and editorial interface for correspondence from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. She is currently Co-Director of a sister project to EMLO called Women’s Early Modern Letters Online (WEMLO). In the past, she held an internship with the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, completed a doctorate at Oxford on paratext and early modern women writers, and worked a number of years for the Bodleian Libraries and as a freelance editor. She has a passion for rare books and manuscripts as social and material artifacts, and is interested in the development of digital resources that will improve access to these materials while ensuring their ongoing preservation and conservation. An avid traveler, Kim has always loved both London and maps, and so is particularly delighted to be able to bring her early modern scholarly expertise to bear on the MoEML project.

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Janelle Jenstad is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and PI of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. She has taught at Queen’s University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media (Routledge). She has prepared a documentary edition of John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Renaissance and Reformation,Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal. Her book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004), Shakespeare, Language and the Stage, The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden/Thomson Learning, 2005), Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005), Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, 2011), Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter, 2016), Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, 2015), Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana, 2016), Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota, 2017), and Rethinking Shakespeare’s Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge, 2018).

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Sheriff of London 1202-1203. Husband of Rosa Brune. Founder of St. Mary Spital.

MASL Rosa Brune Rosa Brune

Wife of Walter Brune.

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King of Britain and founder of London. Husband of Innogen. Father of Albanact, Camber, and Locrine. Son of Aeneas. Appears in Geoffrey of Monouth’s History of the Kings of Britain.

OR Wikipedia Edward of Woodstock Edward the Black Prince

Prince of Wales and Aquitaine. Father of Richard II. Son of Edward III.

ODNB Wikipedia Edward III Edward III King of England

King of England 1327-1377. Buried at Westminster Abbey.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Edward IV Edward IV King of England

King of England 1461-1470 and 1471-1483.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Sir William Eastfield Sir William Eastfield Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1422-1423. Mayor 1429-1430 and 1437-1438. Member of the Mercers’ Company.

MASL ODNB Sir Simon Eyre Sir Simon Eyre Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1434-1435. Mayor 1445-1446. Member of the Drapers’ Company. Husband of Alice Eyre. Father of Thomas Eyre. Son of John Eyre and Amy Eyre.

MoEML MASL ODNB William fitz-Stephen William fitz-Stephen

Biographer and clerk.

ODNB Wikipedia Simon fitz-Mary Simon fitz-Mary Sheriff

Sheriff of London 1233-1234 and 1246-1247. Founder of Bethlehem Hospital.

EB MASL Adam Fraunceys Adam Fraunceys Mayor

Mayor of London 1352-1354. Member of the Mercers’ Company. Proposed the building of the Guildhall alongside Henry Frowyk. Buried at St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate.

MASL ODNB Dame Mary Ramsey (née Dale) Dame Mary Ramsey Dale

Wife of Sir Thomas Ramsey. Daughter of William Dale.

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Benefactor of the Parish of St. Stephen (Coleman Street). Wife of William Dane. Buried at St. Margaret Moses.

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Sheriff of London 1431-1432. Mayor 1438-1439 and 1448-1449. Member of the Grocers’ Company.

MASL Sir Hugh Calveley Sir Hugh Calveley

Military commander. Appears in Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London.

ODNB Wikipedia Thomas Percy Thomas Percy Earl of Worcester

Soldier and diplomat. Grandson of Henry III. Not to be confused with Thomas Percy.

EB ODNB Wikipedia John Mercer John Mercer

Scotsman captured at sea and imprisoned in Scarborough Castle.

Drummond 42 Margaret Picard Margaret Picard

Wife of Henry Picard.

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King of Scotland 1329-1371.

ODNB Wikipedia Henry le Waleys Henry le Waleys Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1270-1271. Mayor 1273-1274, 1281-1284 and 1297-1299. Financier of Greyfriars.

MASL ODNB Wikipedia Henry the Young King Henry the Young King

Son of Henry II. Crowned titular king during his father’s reign.

ODNB Wikipedia Sylvester I Sylvester I Pope

Pope 314-335.

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Roman poet.

EB Wikipedia Apollo Apollo Phoebus

God of healing, medicine, archery, music, poetry, and the sun in Greek and Roman mythology. Defined as the god of divine distance since the time of Homer.

EB EM (Greek) EM (Roman) Sir Thomas Gresham Sir Thomas Gresham

Member of the Mercersʼ Company. Founder of the Royal Exchange. Father of Richard Gresham. Son of Sir Richard Gresham.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Henry VI Henry VI King of England

King of England 1422-1461 and 1470-1471.

ODNB Wikipedia Henry II Henry II King of England

King of England 1154-1189.

ODNB Wikipedia Henry V Henry V King of England

King of England 1413-1422. Buried at Westminster Abbey.

ODNB Wikipedia Sir Robert Knolles Sir Robert Knolles

First Earl of Banbury. Led a large group of London citizens to Smithfield to assist Richard II during the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381. Husband of Constance Knolles. Buried at Whitefriars Church.

ODNB Wikipedia John Lydgate John Lydgate

Poet and monk of Bury.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Barnard Randolph Barnard Randolph

Gentleman. Commons Sergeant of London. Monument at and buried at St. Mary Magdalen, Old Fish Street.

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Sheriff of London 1474-1475. Mayor 1482-1483. Member of the Goldsmiths’ Company. Monument at Mercers’ Hall.

MASL ODNB Wikipedia St. Peter the Apostle Saint Peter the Apostle

Apostle of Jesus Christ in the Bible.

EB Wikipedia Stephen I Stephen I King of England

King of England 1135-1154. Key figure during The Anarchy, a civil war in England and Normandy 1135-1153.

EB ODNB Wikipedia John Stow John Stow

Historian and author of A Survey of London. Husband of Elizabeth Stow.

MoEML ODNB Wikipedia Sir William Walworth Sir William Walworth Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1370-1371. Mayor 1374-1375 and 1380-1381. Member of the Fishmongers’ Company. Known for killing Wat Tyler. Founder of a college at St. Michael, Crooked Lane. Appears in Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London. Buried at St. Michael, Crooked Lane.

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Sheriff of London 1393-1394. Mayor 1396-1398, 1406-1407, and 1419-1420. Member of the Mercers’ Company. Financier of Greyfriars.

EB MASL ODNB Wikipedia John Windet John Windet

Printer.

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Bookseller and printer. Husband of Alice Wolfe.

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Duke of Gloucester. Husband of Eleanor de Bohun. Son of Edward III. Buried at Westminster Abbey.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Sir Nicholas Brembre Sir Nicholas Brembre Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1372-1373. Mayor 1376-1378 and 1383-1386. Member of the Grocers’ Company. Knighted by Richard II for his help in suppressing the Peasant’s Revolt in 1381. Buried at Christ Church.

MASL ODNB Wikipedia Julius Caesar Julius Caesar

Politician and military commander of the Roman empire.

ODNB Wikipedia Sir Hugh Clopton Sir Hugh Clopton Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1486-1487. Mayor 1491-1492. Member of the Mercers’ Company. Buried at St. Margaret, Lothbury.

MASL ODNB Wikipedia William Elsing William Elsing

Father of Robert Elsing. Member of the Mercers’ Company. Founder and first prior of Hospital of St. Mary within Cripplegate.

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Sheriff of London 1493-1494. Member of the Drapers’ Company. Husband of Elizabeth Peak. Buried at St. Michael, Cornhill.

MASL ODNB Sir Robert Launde Sir Robert Launde Sheriff

Sheriff of London 1376-1377. Member of the Goldsmiths’ Company. Helped restore order in London following the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381. Knighted by Richard II as a result.

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Sheriff of London 1372-1373. Mayor 1378-1379. Possible member of the Grocers’ Company or Fishmongers’ Company. Husband of Jane Sampford. Knighted by Richard II for his help in suppressing the Peasant’s Revolt in 1381. Owner of Tenements in Castle Baynard Ward. Buried at Christ Church.

MASL ODNB John Reynwell John Reynwell Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1411-1412. Mayor 1426-1427. Member of the Stock Fishmongers’ Company. Son of William Reynwell. Buried at St. Botolph, Billingsgate.

MASL Wikipedia Sir Nicholas Twyford Sir Nicholas Twyford Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1377-1378. Mayor 1388-1389. Member of the Goldsmiths’ Company. Knighted by Richard II for his help in suppressing the Peasant’s Revolt in 1381. Husband of Dame Margery Twyford. Buried at St. John Zachary.

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Leader of the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381.

EB ODNB Wikipedia William Lamb William Lamb

Member of the Clothworkersʼ Company. Buried at the Chapel of Jesus.

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King of France 1350-1364.

EB Wikipedia Sir Thomas Whyte Sir Thomas Whyte Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1547-1548. Mayor 1553-1554. Member of the Merchant Taylors’ Company. Founder of St. John’s College, Oxford. Appears in Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London.

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Emperor of the Western Empire 312-324. Emperor of the Roman Empire 324–337. First Roman emperor to profess Christianity.

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Sheriff of London 1420-1421. Mayor 1431-1432. Member of the Grocers’ Company. Buried at Chapel of St. Mary Magdalen, Guildhall.

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Sheriff of London 1382-1383. Mayor 1390-1391 and 1396-1397. Member of the Goldsmiths’ Company. Father of Richard Bamme. Buried at St. George, Botolph Lane.

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Sheriff of London 1348-1349. Mayor 1356-1357. Member of the Vintners’ Company. Appears in Richard Johnson’s Nine Worthies of London.

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Contested Queen of England 1141-1148. Key figure during The Anarchy, a civil war in England and Normandy from 1135-1153.

ODNB Wikipedia Sir John Stockton Sir John Stockton Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1466-1467. Mayor 1470-1471. Member of the Mercers’ Company. Buried atSt. Pancras, Soper Lane.

MASL William Dane William Dane Sheriff

Sheriff of London 1569-1570. Husband to Margaret Dane. Member of the Ironmongers’ Company. Monument at St. Margaret Moses.

MASL Thomas Walsingham Thomas Walsingham

Chronicler and Benedictine monk. Known for his works on the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V.

EB ODNB Wikipedia Sir Thomas Ramsey Sir Thomas Ramsey Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1567-1568. Mayor 1577-1578. Member of the Grocers’ Company. Husband of Dame Mary Ramsey and Dame Alice Ramsey. Buried at St. Nicholas Acon.

MASL John Haydon John Haydon Sheriff

Sheriff of London 1582-1583. Member of the Mercers’ Company. Buried at St. Michael Paternoster Royal.

MASL Thomas Fauconer Thomas Fauconer Sheriff Mayor

Sheriff of London 1403-1404. Mayor 1414-1415. Member of the Mercers’ Company. Builder of Mooregate.

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78 Honor of Citizens, and worthineſſe of men in the ſame.

THis Citie (ſaith Fitzſtephen) is glorious in manhoode: furniſhed with munitions: populous with inhabitants, inſomuch that in the troubleſome time of king Stephen, it hath ſhewed at a muſter twentie thouſand armed horſemen, and threeſcore thouſand footemen, ſeruiceable for the warres. Moreouer ſaith hee, the Citizens of London, whereſoeuer they become, are notable before all other Citizens in ciuillitie of manners, attire, table, & talke. The matrons of this citie are the very modeſt Sabine Ladies of Italy. The Londiners ſometime called Trinobantes, repelled Ceſar, which alwaies made his paſſage by ſhedding blood, whereupon Lucan ſong.

Territa quæſitis oſtendit terga Britannis.

The citie of London hath bred ſome, which haue ſubdued many kingdomes, and alſo the Romaine Empire. It hath alſo brought forth many others, whome vertue and valour hath highlie aduanced, according to Apollo, in his Oracle to Brute, ſub occaſu ſolis: &c. In the time of chriſtianitie, it brought foorth that noble Emperor Conſtantine, which gaue the cittie of Rome and all the emperiall enſignes to God, S. Peter and Pope Silueſter: chooſing rather to be called a Defendor of the church, then an Emperour: and leaſt peace might be violated, and their eyes troubled by his preſence, he retired from Rome, and built the cittie of Conſtantinople. London alſo in late time hath brought forth famous kinges: Maude the Empreſſe, king Henry, ſonne to Henry the ſecond &c. thus far Fitzſtephen: whereunto may bee added innumerable perſons of honor, borne in London, and actions done by worthie citizens, whereof I will onely note a few beſt knowne to the comminalty.

In the yere, 1216. the Londiners: ſending out a Nauie, tooke 65. ſhips of Pirates and ſea robbers: beſides innumerable others that Honor of Citizens, & worthineſſe of men in the ſame. 79 that they drowned, which had robbed on the riuer of Thames. In the yeare 1235. Walter Brune, a Citizen of London, and Roſia his wife founded the Hoſpitall of our Lady, called S. Mary the Spittle without Bliſhopſgate of London, a houſe of ſuch releefe to the needy, that there was found ſtanding at the ſuppreſſion thereof, nineſcore beds well furniſhed for receipt of poore people. In the yeare 1247. Simon Fitzmary, one of the Shiriffes of London, founded the Hoſpitall of S. Marie called Bethleme, alſo without Biſhopſgate. In the yeare 1283. Henry Wallice, then Maior, builded the Tunne vpon Cornhill, to be a priſon for night walkers, and a market houſe called the Stockes, both for fiſh and fleſh, ſtanding in the midſt of the Citie. In the yeare 1332, William Elſing Mercer of London, founded Elſing ſpittle within Criplegate, for ſuſtentation of 100. poore blind men, & became himſelfe the firſt Prior of that Hoſpital, In the yere 1363. Henry Picad ſometime Maior, in one day royally feaſted Edward the thirde, king of England, Iohn king of France, Dauid king of Scots, the king of Cipres, (then ariued in England) Edwarde Prince of Wales, with many other noble men, and after kept his hall for all commers that were willing to play at Dice, and haſarde. In like manner the Lady Margaret his wife, kept her Chamber to the ſame intent &c. In the yeare 1378. Iohn Filpot ſometime Maior, hyred with his owne money, 1000. Souldiers, and defended the Realme from the incurſions of the ennemie, ſo that in a ſmall time his hired men tooke Iohn Mercer, a ſea-rouer, with al his Shippes, which hee before had taken from Scarberow, and fifeteene Spaniſh ſhips laden with great riches. In the yeare 1380. Thomas of VVodſtocke, Thomas Percie, Henry Calueley,Henry Calveley is most likely Sir Hugh Calveley. Robert Knowles, and others, being ſent with a great power to aide the Duke of Britaine, the ſaide Iohn Filpot hyred ſhips for them of his owne charges, and releaſed the Armour, which the ſouldiers had pawned for their victuailes, more then 1000. in number. This moſt noble Citizen (ſaieth Thomas VValſingham) that had trauelled for the commoditie of the whole Realme, more then all other of his time, had often releeued the king, by lending him great ſommes of money, and otherwiſe, deceaſed in anno 1384. after that he had aſſured Lands to 80 Honor of Citizens and worthineſſe of men. to the City for the reliefe of 13. poore people for euer. In the yere 1381. William Walworth then Mayor a moſt prouident, valiant and learned Citizen, did by his arreſt made vpon VVat Tylar (a preſumptuous Rebell, vpon whome no man durſt lay hands) deliuer the king and kingdome from the danger of moſt wicked Traitors, and was for his ſeruice knighted in the fielde.

Nicholas Brembar, Iohn Filpot, Robert Laund, Nicholas Twiforde, and Adam Francis, Aldermen were then for their ſeruice likewiſe knighted, and Sir Robert Knoles, for aſſiſting of the Maior was made free of this Citie. This Sir Roberte Knoles thus worthilie enfranchiſed a Citizen, founded a Colledge with an Hoſpitall at Pontfract, and hee alſo builded the greate ſtone bridge at Rocheſter, ouer the riuer of Medway, &c. In the yere 1391. Adam Bamne Maior, in a great dearth procured corn from parts beyond the ſeas, to be brought to London in ſuch aboundance as ſufficed to ſerue the Citie, and the Countries nere adioyning, to the furtherance of which good woorke, he tooke out of the Orphants cheſt in the Guildehall, 2000. Markes to buy the ſaide corne and each Alderman laide out 20.l. to the like purpoſe. In the yere 1415. Thomas Faulconer Maior, lent to king Henry the fift towards the maintenance of his wars in France, 10000. Marks vpon Iewels. In the yeare 1420. Richarde Whitington Maior founded Whitingtons Colledge for the poore, with diuinitie lectures to be reade there, for euer: Hee alſo builded Newgate &c. In the yeare 1427. Iohn Rinwell Maior gaue to diſcharge certaine wardes of London, from fiftéenes, and other payments. In the yeare 1432. Iohn Wels Maior conueyed freſh water from Teyborne to the Standarde in weſt Cheape for ſeruice of the Citie. In the yeare 1438. William Eaſtfielde Maior, conueyed water to the Conduite in Fleeteſtreete to Aldermanberry, and to Cripleſgate. In the yeare 1439. Stephen Brown Maior ſent into Pruſſia, and cauſed corne to bee brought thence to London in greate quantitie, whereby he brought down the prize of wheate from iij.s̃. the Buſhell, to leſſe then halfe that money. In the yeare 1446. Simon Eyre Maior, builded the Leaden hall, for a common Grayner of corne to the vſe of this Citie, and left 5000. markes to bee beſtowed in charitable actions Honor of Citizens and worthineſſe of men. 81 actions for releefe of the poore. In the yeare 1471. Iohn Stocton Maior, and 11. Aldermen of London, with the Recorder were all made knightes in the fielde, by Edwarde the fourth, for their good ſeruice done vutoI.e., vnto. him. In the yeare 1483. Edmond Shaa Maior, builded Cripleſgate. In the yeare 1491. Hugh Cloptō Maior, builded the great ſtone arched bridge at Stratford vpon Auon. In the yeare 1494. Robert Fabyan, Alderman and one of the Shiriffes gathered out of diuers good Authors, aſwell Latine as French, a large chronicle of England and France, which hee publiſhed in Engliſh to his greate charges, for the honor of this citie, and common vtilitie of the whole Realme. In the yeare 1554, Sir Thomas VVhite Maior founded S. Iohns Colledge in Oxforde, and gaue greate ſummes of money to diuers Townes in England for releefe of the poore. In the yere 1566. Sir Thomas Greſham Mercer, builded that ſtately Exchange Royal in London, and left his dwelling houſe in Biſhopſgate ſtreete, to be a colledge of readings &c. as in my ſummary.

About the yeare 1570. Margaret Dan, widowe to William Dan, late one of the Sheriffes of London gaue by her teſtament more then 2000. pound to charitable actions.

Alſo about the yeare 1577. Dame Mary Ramſey wife to Sir Thomas Ramſey Mayor, being ſeaſed of landes in fée ſimple of her inheritance to the yearely value of 243. pound, by his conſent gaue the ſame to Chriſts Hoſpitall in London, towardes reliefe of poore children there, and otherwiſe, as in my ſummarie and abridgement I haue expreſſed, and as farith by monumentes erected in Chriſtes Hoſpitall: which gift ſhe afterward in her widowhode confirmed, and greatly augmented.

In the yere 1577. William Lamb Clothworker builded a water Conduite at Oldbourne Croſſe, to his charge of 1500.l. and did many other charitable acts, as in my ſummarie.

In the yeare 1582. Iohn Haydon Alderman, gaue large Legacies, and more then 3000.l. for releefe to the poore. In the yeare 1583. Barnalde Randulph, common Serieant of London, gaue and deliuered with his hand 906.l. towardes the building of water Conduites, which was performed. Moreouer he gaue by his Teſtament 1000.l. to bee imployed in deedes of charity, but that money being left in holdfaſt hands, I haue not G heard 82 The Citie deuided into partes. heard how it was beſtowed.

Thus much for the worthineſſe of Citiizens in this Citie, touching whom Iohn Lydgate a Monke of Bury, in the raigne of Henry the ſixt made (amongſt other) theſe verſes following.

Of Seauen thinges I praiſe the Citie. Of true meaning and faithfull obſeruance. Of righteouſnes, truth, and equity. Of Stablenes aye kept in Legiance. And for of vertue, thou haſt ſuffiſance, In this lond here, and other londs all, The kinges Chamber, of Cuſtome men thee cal.